Articles Tagged Loudspeakers

The G20 Summit is one of the most important events in world political and economic calendar. Its latest edition, in September 2016, was held in Hangzhou, China, and was only the second G20 convention to be held in an Asian country. The Summit took place in the newly-built Hangzhou International Conference and Exhibition Centre, with the external area around the building freely accessible during the days of the Summit and hosting audio-visual projections supported by P Series loudspeakers from RCF.…
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I have to make a confession. KRK sent me its latest line of control room monitors over a month ago. Yes. I’ve been dragging my feet on returning the pairs of new V4s and V8s for one simple reason… They sound really good. My standard procedure when reviewing monitors is to throw a few favorite albums at them and see what happens. If they still sound good after that stage, then we look at adding some mics and making some…
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A very large Electro-Voice X-Line Advance system – comprising over 100 loudspeakers – provided sound reinforcement for a show by Irish alternative rock band Walking on Cars in Dublin in early November. The show followed a sold-out tour of Ireland in support of the band’s latest album, “Everything This Way,” which includes the hit single Speeding Cars. The band is also preparing for tours of the UK, Europe, and the U.S. Pro audio company Murt Whelan Sound flew two main…
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Rascals, a unique combination of steakhouse and live music venue, which began construction last year in Albany, New York’s Crossgates Mall, is finally open for business. After many revisions, to provide the best dining and entertainment venue, Rascals Steakhouse has opened with support of a complete sound system from ISP Technologies. Philip Lama, along with his wife Linda and partners Chris and Melissa O’Reilly, are excited to bring the $4 million dollar investment into fruition. Lama, who has been in…
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Glenn Jordan’s musical footprint covers decades of film and TV, from HBO dramas to popular animated shows on Nickelodeon. He’s won an Emmy for his role as musical director on Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and has worked with everyone from Sha Na Na to Shari Lewis, and TV shows like The X-Files and Six Feet Under. In the busy world of film and TV scoring, he lives by the almighty deadline. “It’s Monday morning, and I need to have 22 minutes of…
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An early 20th century castle and museum of historic note, Casa Loma is also one of Toronto’s most popular sites for concerts and other social events. The favored event venue in warm-weather months is a glass-walled outdoor pavilion that was recently outfitted with a new distributed system of Meyer Sound IntelligentDC self-powered loudspeakers. “I was looking at Meyer Sound from the outset as nobody else offers a comparable solution,” says Wesley Thuro of Event Media Design, the exclusive AV provider…
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The Abba Pater Church in Arecibo, Puerto Rico was recently relocated to a larger structure and underwent a complete retrofit that included a new sound system comprised of Martin Audio CDD loudspeakers and CSX subwoofers. Given the importance of the Abba Pater’s Music Ministry, church director pastor Jose Montijo Soler collaborated extensively with consultant-integrator Jose David Irizarry to find the best sounding audio system that would still work within the church’s budgetary constraints. As pastor Montijo Soler explains, “We looked…
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Zell am See, a year-round hotspot due to the lake and nearby Kitzsteinhorn glacier, is located in the region of Salzburger Land in Austria. In 2016 with the opening of the new Casino Zell am See, the region became an even more desired vacation destination. Casino management tasked neighbors Musik Lenz with providing an audio system for the entire superstructure. Karl Weinand, K-array product specialist at Lenz, designed a solution with even coverage for background music using eight to twelve…
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The MCH (Messe Center Herning) group is one of Scandinavia’s largest congress centers, based in the city of Herning, mid Jutland, Denmark, with large buildings and arenas for hosting conferences, sports events and rock concerts. The group has just installed new d&b audiotechnik loudspeakers into its theatre in Herning town center, which will be used for both conferences and live music events. The decision to select d&b was made by a team of in-house and external professionals after presentations and…
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Lexington, Kentucky’s Rupp Arena is the 24,000-seat centerpiece of the Lexington Center and home to the University of Kentucky’s men’s basketball team, the Kentucky Wildcats The arena, which dates to 1976, got through the last 40 years with sound from “Big Bertha,” a massive cluster system hung above the center of the arena. As part of an ongoing $15-million renovation, Rupp Arena now houses the largest L-Acoustics K2-based system ever used as a fixed installation, enabling tour-level audio that accommodates…
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